Shrink Rap (5)

Dr Pamela Connolly chats with Stephen Fry
(April 2007)

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[aliasanythingyouwant]

anyone else left feeling like stephen fry just gave so much more to this than he got out of it? i really can't imagine that her preconceived oversimplifications were of any use to him. i always enjoy listening to him and he's a classy guy for agreeing to do this, but i can't help but find it iffy that you'd even ask a favor as big as (supposedly) undressing mentally on tv from someone with an established and obvious eagerness to please.

[Benjigtr]

Stephen is very graceful in the way he speaks and uses words to explain things better than anyone else I can think of.

[baldassare01]

Stephen was being polite... sensitive issues were, I believe, "pushed" pre-maturely even before he can genuinely acknowledge them... he was being polite.

[EmuUpAGumTree]

I dunno after years of therapy myself, I am of the belief one can indeed 'think themself out of anything'. cos re-hashing up topics of distress and turmoil don't do me personally any good and have found it best to just accept them and move on from them. YES those voices and setbacks will still arise, but its in dealing with them day to day and thinking yourself out of the same destructive behaviours that I feel truely changes you, not sitting around giving credit to bad things from the past.

[psychobollox]

@SiliconBong

yeh... thing is, BC deals with it very comically... quite good really.

and yeh - she does seek to tell him what the reality is, and that's not what we're supposed to do; we don't do that at all... we try to figure out the client's reality. because that's the one in which the client operates.

[SiliconBong]

Now that you mention it I do remember him mentioning his marijuana use every so often in his routines. psychobollox.

Now that i've had the time to revisit the previous 4 parts of the conversation I can see what you mean by " she seeks to impose her reality on him "

[psychobollox]

@SiliconBong

he'd been trying to 'draw a line under it' for a while. but it seems that she was instrumental in him getting help for the lot, really. he talks about the drug-days in his stage-show sometimes, because .. well, it all happened and so on, but it's all past and gone now ...

and she was a major force in that becoming so :)

[SiliconBong]

I'm aware of Pamela dealing with Billys alcoholism, but I don't know about his substance abuse.

psychobollox

[psychobollox]

@SiliconBong

i was talking about how she sorted connolly out. which she did indeed. with regard to his substance abuse stuff. i'm not impressed with her way with SF here, though. she seeks to impose _her_ reality on him, which is what no psychologist should ever do.

[SiliconBong]

Thanks for agreement psychobollox. There's a lot of communication between the two. They're both on common ground, and have an excellent rapport. On camera !!

[psychobollox]

@SiliconBong

true. and she sorted him out on some issues, for sure.

[psychobollox]

@tadzio999

yep.